(1) With reference to the three yearly conduct list of Court officers xttaclind to the three Palaces belonging to the Imperial Household Department presented by the Comptrollers-General of the ssid Depastment, we hereby command that with the exerption of Jun K'6 "ud Chi Td who are to be excluded from the privilege, the remainder of the officers in the said list are to be recorded in the books of the Grand Council for first vacancies in proportion to their several ranks.
(2) The Commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie reports the capture by his force of six members of a gang of armed bandits who have recently been infesting the neighbourhood of the Imperial Prefecture. The prisoners are herahy commended tobe handed over to the Board of Punishments for trial and sentence according to the laws ut the Innd, and as soon as the said sentences have been given out the said Commandant shall be po ted to recommend for special promotion and pecuniary reward the deserving and energetic officers who effected the said capture, (3) A. postscript memorial by the same high officer reports the flight from his post of volunteer Second Captain and reditary noble of the 8th grade, belonging to the Southern battalion of the Gendarmerio force of Peking, vained Peh Sung-nien, and the request that the said refugee be cashiered for his conduct. The request is granted and the commander of the said battalion is empowered to pro-secure search for the runaway so that he may be brought to punishment for his misdemeanour. The Board concerned is commanded to take note.
(4) Decree: commanding that the deserving officers whose names had been recently recorded in the Grand Council for first vacancies, shall be introduced in batches of two at atime each morning, cemmencin; from the 23rd of the month, in the Gran Council Chamber where they are to give specimens vf their penmanship for approval by us.
(5) With reference to the memorial of that Kuo Jen, holding the civil rank ut an Hsiang Lin and his colleagues reporting
assistant secretary of one of the six Boards and Comptroller of the Ta-erh-chi Mungo! tribe of the herdsman in Ch'ahar, had been accused of certain misdemeanours by the said herdsman, we note that the eaid memorial is incomplete and possesses no details of the charges which have been made against the said Comptroller. To this end, therefore, we refrain from issuing a decree on the case in order to give the memorialists the chance of adding details to their mem"rial.
(6) As Chang Yin-huan has been ordeal on a special mission abroad, Hsii Yung-yi is hereby ordered to act ad interim as Senior Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, ete, during the former's absence from Peking.
(7) Hsiang Lin, Administrator of the Mongolian Dependency of Ch'ahar, reports the escape from the post roads of Chiang Chi-fa, cashiered ex-gaol-warden of Haich'eng and Chao Lin, cashiered ex-police magistrate of Neiychwang, who were working oat on the said prst roads the period of banishment fur coivardico during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, We hereby command that strict search be made for the runaways along the entire route of the post roads and that in case they should seek safety by returning to their native towns the Governors of Anhui and Peking are commanded to keep a strict look out in their several jurisdictions, for signs of the escaped exiles.
(8) We have received the joint memorial of Tao Mu, Viceroy +f Shan-kan; Tung Fu-hsiang, Provincial Comman'ler-in-Chief of Kansu, and Kuei Shun, Imperial Reside' of Hsining and Kokonor rep"rting the complete pacific-tion of that Mongol dependency and the vicinity of the western portion of the Great Wall, and the effacement of the Mahommedan rebels from thave places. In this connection the memori recommend that promotions and rewards be granted tu the deserving of the Mongol princes, dukes, n-bles, officers and tribesmen who distinguished themselves during the war, jus" as those that wore given to the Chinese officers who crushed the rebellion inside of the Great Wall, ete., in order to encourage the Mongols to emulate each other in bravery and courage in time of war, etc. (Then. follow the names of sixty to seventy Mongol mobles, chiefs and subordinate officers. Translator.) We have, however, noticed 1 case of gross neglect and carelessness on the part of the officers of the Mongolian Superintendency, namely, that although. the memorial in question put down the name of a certain Ist class Mongol for promotion, vis:—Su-nan-wu-to-chu-chi, the Mongolian Superintendency in reporting upon the said memorial called that noble by the name of Su-nan-mu-hsiiento-pu."" We must, therefore, hand the Secretati-s of the said Superintendency concerned in the matter over to the regular Bostd for the determination of adequate penalties, while the President and Vice-President of the same are also handed over to the Board for investigation into their conduct. The Borrd concerned is commanded to take note thereon.
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